The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations

Pohl, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/09662839.2012.726220

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“…2 This surprised many scholars because, for half a century, the conventional wisdom in international relations (IR) held that the "high politics" of security and defence was too sensitive to become a EU policy competence (Hoffmann 1966), and at odds with the Union's "civilian power" self-image (Duchêne 1972). Due to their novelty, CSDP military operations have been studied vigorously in various academic forums, such as this one (Riddervold 2011, Dijkstra 2012b, Pohl 2013a. This article will add to this literature by working towards a multi-level collective action approach on the deployment of CSDP military operations.…”

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Deploying EU military crisis management operations: a collective action perspective

Nováky

2014

European Security

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This article will work towards a multi-level collective action approach for understanding the deployment of Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) military operations. It is multi-level because it uses three levels of analysis: firstly, the international level, where events that create threats to certain values catalyze the process leading to the deployment of an operation; secondly, the national level, where EU governments formulate their national preferences towards prospective deployments based on utility expectations; and thirdly, the EU level, where EU member states negotiate and seek compromises to accommodate their different national preferences. The strength of the model will be demonstrated through empirical case studies on the deployment processes of EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU NAVFOR Atalanta off the coast of Somalia. The article will also provide an overview of the existing theoretical literature on the deployment of CSDP military operations.

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Deploying EU military crisis management operations: a collective action perspective

Nováky

2014

European Security

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“…Some literature suggests an indirect impact of norms: humanitarian concerns of European publics had a driving impact on the deployment of military operations. According to this logic, failure to intervene in those conflicts could have had domestic political costs for European leaders (Pohl 2013a;2013b;, affecting their ability to get re-elected, thus making them consider that the military costs of launching operations of conflict management would be inferior to the potential political costs of idleness. Other literature goes further into normative causality and suggests a direct impact of norms: political leaders and officials were socialized within EU institutional structures up to the point that national and collective interests ended up merging in an internalized logic of European appropriateness.…”

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The European Union, Conflict Management, and the Normative Illusion

Magalhaes¹

2020

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The European Union (EU) has recently become the most active conflict manager, currently deploying more operations than any other organisation. There has been a total of 13 operations of military nature from 2003 to 2019, deployed in Europe and in Africa. The discourse at the level of the European Union emphasizes not only the security of its members but also the importance of humanitarian norms. Do these norms drive the deployment of EU’s military operations? There is literature that recognizes the relevance of norms, suggesting that these factors may indirectly or even directly have a driving impact. On the contrary, I suggest that there is no normative driving impact. To be precise, I argue that power distribution and exposure to conflicts are the fundamental conditions driving the deployment of military operations by the EU.

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“…Other research has addressed the planning process (Mattelaer 2013, Nováky 2016 and the implementation of EU military operations (Merlingen and Ostrauskaité 2008), their impact (Ginsberg and Penksa 2012) and effectiveness (Whitman andWolff 2008, Peen-Rodt 2011). Moreover, some studies examined the influence of EU institutions (Klein 2010, Cross 2013, Dijkstra 2013, Riddervold 2015 or particular Member States (Pohl 2013) on the planning and conduct of missions, and the relationship with external actors such as NATO (Riddervold 2014) the UN (Major 2008) and the African Union (Plank 2017).…”

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Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor

Palm

Crum

2019

European Security

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For long, its lack of military means served to single the European Union out as a "civilian" or "normative power". However, since 2003 twelve EU military operations have been launched. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of all EU military mission so far, this article seeks to establish how these missions have evolved over time and how they have affected the character of the EU as an international actor. For this purpose, the article outlines four ideal-typical conceptions of the EU's international identity and operationalises them along two underlying dimensions: justification (the purpose of military operations) and policy-embeddedness (the coordination between military means and other foreign policy instruments). Analysing the military operations along these two axes, the article suggests that the EU has been evolving towards a "Liberal Power" identity, as is reflected in a shift from value-based to utility-based justifications, while military operations have at the same time become more embedded in the EU's overall foreign policies.

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The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations

Cited by 7 publications

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Deploying EU military crisis management operations: a collective action perspective

Deploying EU military crisis management operations: a collective action perspective

The European Union, Conflict Management, and the Normative Illusion

Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor

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